strange writing on my google/hotmail

Discussion in 'Off Topic Area' started by Late for dinner, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    So I turned on google and hotmail and found all sorts of smatterrings of the following letters on the pages. I run Ubuntu linux Lucid so I am not expecting a virus and it does not affect other sites ie MAP.

    ᎬᎾᎨᏒ ᎢᏗᎬᏁᏗ ᏗᏟᎶᏍᏔᏅ

    Any ideas what this is and why its on google.hotmail??

    powchoy
     
  2. Saz

    Saz Nerd Admin

    Looks like an incompatible font or something. What happens if you change browsers?
     
  3. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    Interestingly disappears when I use chromium or Opera.

    So maybe a problem with my recent mozilla update files.

    Thanks. Interesting and reasonable logic ;' ).

    powchoy
     
  4. Saz

    Saz Nerd Admin

    Occam's Razor :D

    I'd say almost definitely a font issue then, those sites are probably using a font that Firefox can't read properly.

    You could try rolling back Mozilla, or installing an older version.
     
  5. warriorofanart

    warriorofanart Valued Member

    There are weird messages written on my wall...

    A collection of bloody hand prints and something about a "...horrible, painful death you wretched *******..."

    Should I be worried? :confused: :D
     
  6. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    Latin ..

    hide the Pope is coming

    run AWAY AND HIDE NOW !!

    Smurf
     
  7. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

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    You can see that it is only the directly related google text that is weird.. the stuff searched for is normal. If its a cookie issue I guess I can delete the old cookies but I don't want to lose password settings etc...

    suggestions?
     
  8. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    So Cal??


    Manson country :eek:

    Heck I would be moving to NJ as quick as possible heh heh

    powchoy
     
  9. Knight_Errant

    Knight_Errant Banned Banned

    Is it me or does that writing look.... evil?
     
  10. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    When I clear my cache and restart firefox this initially comes up :

    helloMessage=Hello World!
    helloMessageTitle=Hello
    prefMessage=Int Pref Value: %d
    extensions.ubufox@ubuntu.com.description=Ubuntu Firefox Pack.
    ubufox.pluginWizard.availablePluginsPage.description.label=Choose a plugin for media type
    app.releaseNotesURL=http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004
    browser.startup.homepage=about:home
    browser.throbber.url=file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html
    app.update.url.details=file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html
    startup.homepage_override_url=about:blank
    startup.homepage_welcome_url=about:blank
    ubufox.pluginWizard.description.notfound=No description found in plugin database. \nReport a bug to ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com


    I can type in google url and then I am back to the same old cr*p..

    PITA!!

    powchoy
     
  11. Fish Of Doom

    Fish Of Doom Will : Mind : Motion Supporter

    use windows?

    :evil:
     
  12. Saz

    Saz Nerd Admin

    I'm in work now and it's not even showing on the PC here compared to my one at home. I'm using Firefox here and Chrome at home.

    And yeah, the writing looked evil but I thought that was cool :D
     
  13. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    None of that strange writing on my office computer either...

    Hmmm wonder if this is the revenge of the gods because I tried to use Tor on the home PC??

    powchoy
     
  14. Late for dinner

    Late for dinner Valued Member

    Ok sorted it out. The upgrade to firefox does not include english as a base language. ???

    Had to go to edit, preferences, content, languages and uncheck the universal languages line and add english as my preferred option. Weird as everything else but the buttons was in english by default.

    Programmers seem to be a breed unto themselves heh heh.

    powchoy
     

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